i agree that some of the jeffannie interactions can be characterized as we are trading quips but i dont necessarily agree that that is unrealistic behavior when youve got two people who like each other with personalities like jeff and annies the conversations can be a little awkward and heightened particularly if one or both of them is tentative or emotionally closedoff like jeff is as far as the sort of genuine conversation that youre describing i think there are several examples throughout the series jeff asking for annies advice regarding pierces stepdaughter their talk outside the tranny dance and jeffs pep talk to annie in the model un episode minus the weirdly awkward ending of that scene are a few that come to mind